Costa Rica News
Sun, 06 Mar 2022 08:49:59 +0000Vehicular restrictions No More!
QCOSTARICA – If you are reading this in the wee hours of Sunday morning, March 6, starting, this is the last of the nationwide sanitary vehicular restrictions. Once 5 am this Sunday morning rolls around, Costa Rica goes back to the way things w...
Sun, 06 Mar 2022 08:19:58 +0000Expomovil 2022 starts March 10
QCOSTARICA – It’s been two years since the traditional new car fair, Expomovil, too place, but it’s back. From Thursday, March 10 to Sunday March 20, people looking for deals on a new car can do so under one rook at the Pedregal Eve...
Sun, 06 Mar 2022 08:00:54 +0000The first container of products derived from hemp and cannabis arrives in Costa Rica
QCOSTARICA – Its business origin is in Costa Rica, but its spirit goes beyond the geographical, this national company being an arm of Healthy Grains, the leader and main promoter of the hemp trade and non-psychoactive cannabis in Paraguay and L...
Sat, 05 Mar 2022 11:40:12 +0000Costa Rica and Chile, the only countries in Latin America that stand out for wide coverage and water quality
QCOSTARICA – On the first day of 2022, the global population was estimated at 7.8 billion people, which means an increase of 74 million people in just one year. This population increase is reflected in the increase in demand to satisfy basic ne...
Sat, 05 Mar 2022 11:31:25 +0000Tico trapped by Russian invasion in Ukraine manages to return to Costa Rica
QCOSTARICA – The Consular Department of the Foreign Service Directorate of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed that after multiple efforts, the first family made up of a Costa Rican and his Ukrainian wife arrived in Costa Rica this Friday...
Sat, 05 Mar 2022 09:52:41 +0000Forklift cause of mega fire in El Coyol
QCOSTARICA – The Bomberos de Costa Rica (Fire Department) identified the cause of the fire that occurred at the end of February in El Coyol, which affected 20,000 square meters in the Empaques Santa Ana company: a forklift. FrTo combat the blaz...
Sat, 05 Mar 2022 09:37:13 +0000Carlos Alvarado rules out tax reduction that would allow lower fuel prices
QCOSTARICA – President Carlos Alvarado assured that reducing the single tax on fuels will generate a hole in the country’s public finances, given the recent increases in the price of fuels. This week fuels reached the highest price since ...
Sat, 05 Mar 2022 06:48:50 +00005 Clever Ways to Maintain the Security of your Business
One of the most important aspects of our daily lives, and sadly one that is continually disregarded by most people, is security. The sense of safety and the actual security of your homes and businesses is not something to laugh at or dismiss. It does...
Fri, 04 Mar 2022 09:04:49 +0000¢1,000 a liter of gasoline? Costa Rica already has the highest cost of fuels
QCOSTARICA – Consumers in Costa Rica should brace themselves for gasoline prices of up to ¢1,000 colones per liter, according to various experts, who say the dollar exchange rate and the war between Russia and Ukraine, shoot up the cost of thi...
Fri, 04 Mar 2022 08:44:34 +0000Russia’s invasion of Ukraine impacts Costa Rican exports: Bananas and pineapples are at risk
QCOSTARICA – The crisis in Ukraine due to the invasion of Russia has repercussions on the world economy and Costa Rica is no exception to this reality. Jaime García, economist and director of the Índice de Progreso Social (IPS) – Soci...